The invention provides a positioning method for inverting a blast furnace shell. According to the positioning method, furnace zones can be reliably aligned and positioned, the method is simple, the operation is easy and the construction is rapid when the blast furnace shell is inverted. According to the positioning method, the furnace shell sequentially consists of a first furnace zone, a second furnace zone,..., a nth furnace zone from bottom to top. The method comprises the following steps of: during inverting, lifting and mounting the nth furnace zone on a furnace frame, lifting the mth furnace zone, and performing butt welding on the mth furnace zone and the (m+1)th furnace zone, wherein m is equal to (n-1), (n-2),..., 2, 1, and n is a natural number; and during aligning and positioning, finding the center of a blast furnace by a cross line pulling method, pulling a suspension wire, and judging the error between the center of the furnace zone and the center of the blast furnace according to the distance from eight outside markers to an outer ring of the furnace zone and the distance from the other end of a short fine line away from the suspension wire to an inner ring of the furnace zone through circling motion of a long fine line and the short fine line around the suspension wire.